Imagine proudly looking over your final encaustic wax painting created during this one day workshop led by local artist Penny Treese. Blooms and bursts of vibrant color result from the use of blowtorch techniques, layers of pigmented wax, and various sized wax dipped brushes. Learn to create delicate marks and even feather colors in layers to produce the final image.

Students first create savory color palettes by learning to combine appropriate proportions of oil pigment to wax. The class progresses from painting on small surfaces with focus on composition to later using large substrates where repetition of mark making and “sizing up” is the concentration. Students are encouraged to incorporate happy accidents, discovered during the small surface portion of class, into the final 18×18” painting.

Students will leave with one 18×18” painting along with smaller studies/masterpieces created during the one day workshop. This collection provides students with a foundation for a body of work that can be grown as it develops.

This is an intermediate to advanced level class. Suggested pre-requisites are An Intro to Encaustic workshop and an Advanced Encaustic workshop. See links below for upcoming pre-requisite class options. Contact Penny Treese with questions about requirements for this workshop.

Check out some more of the work I have hanging in Artblend‘s fine art gallery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Simply click on images to enlarge.) I am so honored to be featured in their international and prestigious publication.

“Themes of stillness, presence and reflection are revealed throughout Penny Treese’s paintings. The interplay of molten unbleached beeswax and vivid pigment beget images of land and sea, sea and sky. Using an iron to apply heat and delicate pressure, Treese transforms wax into warm waves of color flowing across wood or paper. Golds fade, blues burst, pinks evoke.”

Within White Space II

Rejoice and be glad in it

Morning Glimpse

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Please join me and view new work by talented local artists at this incredible venue.

“METHOD”OPENING FRIDAY AUGUST 14th 20157:00pm – 9:00pm

“A group exhibition highlighting artists working in new and multidisciplinary mediums that have developed a process and technique that is uniquely their own, their method accelerates the conceptual aspects of their work.”

LEARN ENCAUSTIC WAX PAINTING ONE ON ONE OR WITH A SMALL GROUP… LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE.

Penny will teach you the ins and outs of painting with encaustic wax. Learn to melt, color and paint with molten beeswax. Burn patterns and depth into with a blow torch or learn to iron the wax on watercolor paper. Choose a style and learn in a personalized one on one setting or in a small party group with friends.

Spruill Center for the Arts Registration for Encaustic Workshops Open in Dunwoody, GA

Monday, November 23rd, 10AM – 4PM

Intstructor: Penny Treese

Ironing as an encaustic wax painting technique results in a unique and beautiful experience for the artist and the viewer. Surfaces can be created to emulate coral-thick and textural, or thin layers of pigmented, natural, unbleached beeswax can be fused to watercolor paper or wood surfaces revealing subtle, transparent layers of color that seem to pulsate and move before the eyes of the beholder. In this encaustic workshop, learn the method of ironing wax to develop what Penny calls, “Selfscapes,” representations of sky, sea, ground, or simple yet stunning abstract fields of luscious color. You will leave this workshop with several encaustic wax masterpieces on paper and wooden substrates. While moving gracefully with the flow of the molten wax under the hot iron, you may find yourself swimming within serene waves, floating amongst translucent clouds and experiencing a healing that is born from the freedom of creating abstract beauty without restriction.